Fall is without a doubt the best season for a family getaway in California. The summer crowds are gone. The weather is warm, and the skies are clear. The fall colors are blazing from the top of the state to the bottom. And the apples are ripe for the...
Space is hard to come by in San Francisco. Prices are high. Land is scarce. You make do with what you’ve got. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. So when I heard the newest national park space was being built on top of a busy SF highway tunnel, the...
Houses abandoned overnight, clothes left on hangers, meals interrupted and never finished — no, this isn’t the setting of a post-apocalyptic movie, but the reality of how many of California’s more than 3,800 ghost towns were deserted and left to rot. Creeped...
If you live anywhere that isn’t right next to a national park, then you know it can take hours to reach a nice hiking trail: often deep in the woods, oftener with limited cell reception. When it was just the two of us, no problem. My wife and I don’t mind...
Add color and culture into your family’s Cinco de Mayo celebration by visiting historic Olvera Street, the "Birthplace of Los Angeles." Less than a block from Union Station in the heart of Los Angeles, Olvera Street (“La Placita Olvera”) is a conveniently...
Growing up off the coast of Maine, I found lighthouses fascinating. Everything from how they were designed to the type of lenses they used captivated my young mind like nothing had since I’d learned dinosaurs were a thing. And unlike dinosaurs, which were...